Photography Art + Luxury Watches Meet For Nice Result At Intersection Magazine

by Ariel Adams (RSS feed)
Aug 13th 2009 at 2:01PM

We've known that watches are pretty, but sometimes watch photography can be too focused on the watch itself versus the watch in the world. A great timepiece looks good because it enhances your appearance and reminds you of something else, even if that reminder is subconscious. A recent photo essay that was republished on the French Intersection magazine blog. Photographed by Charles Helleu, the images take popular mainstream luxury watch models and places them in an industrial theme that the photographer felt best represented the character of the watch. For example you have the shown Rolex Milgauss watch among some sort of gearing. Follow the link below and you'll find masterful images such as a Brietling Chrono-matic 49 among fuses, a Chanel J12 Superloggera among screws, a Panerai Ferrari against a performance racing disc brake, and more. Many styles of watch photography can be found. Most do a good job of showing the appearance of a watch, but only the rogjt accompaniments really illustrate the character of a watch well.

Via Intersection blog (in French).

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch review site aBlogtoRead.com.

Tags: art, charles helleu, CharlesHelleu, france, intersection, photography, watch